At Rest

Deadly force
In an incident that was, according to her son, deeply out of character, Beardsley appeared in a police substation parking lot at 6 a.m. and provoked a confrontation with officers by showing an apparent firearm and shouting at them. She was fatally shot.
This record exists so that Joann L. Beardsley, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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